Obscure the larger truth. If the ideological gulf between the president and steve bannon is small. This is not a fight over ideas, its a fight over who deserves credit for an election win. Talk about missing the point. If the legacy of 2016 is not a single person, any person, its a set of ideas, the ones that reflect the hopes and their needs and the fears and the aspirations of a badly mistreated american middleclas middleclass. Those voters came to the polls because they wanted real borders, higher wages, they were dispirited by the opioid epidemic, why wouldnt they be. They were sick of being lectured by Political Class of washington that despises them and holds them in contempt. They were the other country, but they had come to recognize that it is hard to make the rest of the world better and very easy to make it worse. Above all, they voted for leadership that promised to put Americans First above any foreign nation or domestic interest group. That is the real legacy of 2016. At
would think our press would be excited to see these protests in progress. it doesn t seem so for some reason. if the past couple of days the impulse of the press has seemed to be to downplay or even criticized those protests. nbc, cbs, cnn all criticized, made in response to it rare antigovernment protest. the new york times tweeted that the protesters ignored calls for com from iran s president. are we imagining it or is there something we are going on here? mollie hemingway is the senior editor of the federalist, she joins us tonight. what is this about? i think there are good reasons why you re not seeing a lot of coverage and a lot of bad reasons. the good reasons is that iran is a very impressive regime, they kidnap foreign tourists. we don t have good lines of communication and it s very difficult to cover what s happening there. if there are a lot of bad reasons why you are seeing a lot of coverage, and that could be everything from how these waves